Translating Luciano Erba: a conversation with Peter Robinson

Interview with Peter Robinson (pp.195-201) and ‘three uncollected translations’ of Luciano Erba by Peter Robinson (pp.202-204).

Luciano Erba: l'ultima intervista

This is the transcript of the last interview of Luciano Erba, held in February 2008, when the poet visited the Italian Department of the University of Reading as part of a UK tour to celebrate the publication of The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems, the English translation of his poetry by Peter Robinson, issued by Princeton University Press in 2006. The interview offered the opportunity to review Erba’s long career as a poet and assess the impact of some key cultural figures and events on his poetics